{"sf1_id":701443,"sf2_id":null,"title":"Aquata Cove - Chapter 19","author":"Mirron Tenshi","words":4911,"posted_at":"2014-05-05T22:19:00.000Z","tags":["Disney","Gay","Human","Love","Mermaid","Mermaid: The Body Found","Shock","The Little Mermaid","heartbreak","merman","sadness"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/701443-aquata-cove-chapter-19","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/view/701443","image_url":"https://www.sofurryfiles.com/std/thumb?page=701443\u0026ext=.jpg","description":"","content":"Aquata CoveChapter 19: Truths   One Saturday morning, Merrick is moaning as he had\nstraddling Adam's lap. He rocked his hips as he felt Adam's large manhood push\ninto him. He huffed and panted as he ground his bubble butt against that hairy\npatch of dark pubs on Adam's lap. Adam bit his lip as he shoved his pelvis up\ninto Merrick's perfect bottom. Merrick moaned out as he leaned back as Adam\nrubbed and masturbated the blonde's average dick, rubbing it with the precum\noozing out of the glans. \"Ffffffuck!\" Adam moaned as he pistoned his hips up and down\ninto Merrick's ass.  \"Ooohhh! Ohh! Hoohhh!\" The merman huffed and moaned as he as\nhe let his head back, \"Aaaaawwwwhhh!!\" Adam licked his lips as he felt\nMerrick's rod splurt out his hot, potent juices from his tender balls. Adam's\nwet hands squelched around Merrick's genitals, squishing the fresh cum around\nhis throbbing cock, while the rest of his spunk puddle around his orbs, and on\nAdam's pelvis. Adam put his cum-covered hands onto Merrick's thighs, and really\nstarted ramming his dick up into his lover's ass. He pressed his head on his\npillow before he huffed harshly, moaning as he felt himself blow deep into his\nmerman. \"Oh God...\" Adam groaned, \"Ahhhh...\" He sighed as Merrick pulled his rear\noff of Adam and laid down on top of him, while the human wiped his hands on his\nbed. \"Mmmmm~\" Adam smiled as Merrick cuddled with him, \"Nothing\nbetter than morning sex~\" Merrick giggled as he kissed Adam's cheek.\n\"Hmmmm... Hey Adam?\" \"Hm?\"  \"Are there any human stories about merpeople?\" \"Yeah, of course. Lots of them. The most notable of them is\nan old tale called the Little Mermaid. It was originally a love letter from a\nman who was infatuated with ANOTHER man.\" \"Ooh~\" Merrick said, \"Sounds romantic.\" \"Mhm. There was a cartoon movie about it. Wanna see it?\" Merrick looked up, and tilted his head curiously, \"Cartoon...\nMovie? What does that even mean?\" Adam chuckled before they rolled off of the\nbed. \"C'mon, I'll show you.\" Adam got dressed, wearing a\ntank-top, and some loose shorts, while Merrick pulled on some nice pink satin\nboxers - he has gotten accustomed to sporting those loose, breezy, smooth cloth\nthings. Adam led Merrick into the living room, and switched on the\nPS3. He picked up the Disney cartridge, and opened it up to pluck up the disk,\n\"This is called a DVD. It contains a movie. A Movie \" Adam said as he showed\nMerrick the shiny side of the disk, \"Is a type of story that is displayed for\nentertainment purposes. You see, instead of someone just TELLING a story,\npeople illustrate, or act it out to PRESENT the story. And you see it,\" He\npatted on the large flat-screen TV, \"On THIS thing. Humans have made MILLIONS\nof these,\" He said as he inserted the disk into the PS3 to play it. \"Ooh, I can't wait to see this~!\" Merrick said as he hopped\nonto the couch. Adam smiled as he went over to the couch, and plopped down\nright next to his blonde as he started the movie. Merrick snuggled up to Adam as the movie. The merman gasped\nas he saw the ship coming to view. Adam chuckled, \"Relax, babe, they're not\npirates.\" \"How do you know that though??\" \"Not EVERY human that has a ship like that is a pirate.\nJeez, I'd thought you were going to have a heartattack when you saw Yuri's\ndad's speedboat. \" \"Are you SURE she's not a pirate???\" Merrick asked. Adam\nlaughed as he huggled his merman. \"No, Merrick, I told you, she's not.\" He smirked as the\nmovie played on. \"... What's with that fish? It looks so... Silly.\" Merrick asked\nas he tilted his head. Adam chuckled. \"This movie is a cartoon. It's animated and exaggerated for...\nThe sake of amusement.\" \"Huh... Ooh! Here come the merpeople! Oh and their Pisciens!\"\nMerrick said eagerly. As they watched, his giggled as the small seahorse spoke,\nand then looked in awe as King Triton came in with those dolphins, \"Oh, the\nPiscien Triton!\" Merrick said, \"Oooooh! That is one, VERY nice trident!\" He\nsaid as he watched the golden weapon glow, \"How or where did he make it??\" \"Hahaha, I don't know, babe.\" \"... PFFFF Hahaha!\" Merrick laughed out loud as Sebastian came\nin, \"What the f- is THAT supposed to be a crab???\" Adam laughed with his lover\nas it played on. The movie played on, before it came to Ariel, \"... Ok, what is\nup with these merpeople?\" Merrick asked. \"What do you mean, babe?\" Adam asked back. \"Well, LOOK at them!\" He said as Ariel and Flounder explored\nthe sunken ship, \"They hardly even LOOK like merfolk! They just look like\nsomeone stuck a human and a fish together!\" Adam laughed at that, \"I mean,\nthese ones don't even have gills! How are they even breathing?! HOW I ask\nyou??\" Adam giggled as he cuddled up to him, \"And the hair! WHAT kind of\nmerperson has hair IN the water?? Hair slows us down, we ONLY have hair when\nwe're dry.\" \"I dunno, sweetie, we humans have silly ideas for somethings.\"\nThe movie played on, and came to the part with Scuttle the Sea Gull. \"Does EVERY animal in a human, 'movie' talk like this? It's\nso... Unrealistic.\" \"That it is, Merrick. In Cartoons, logic is thrown out the\nwindow.\" \"Apparently so,\" He said. Soon, the movie came to the part\nwith Ursula the Sea Witch, and she came out of her shell in the lair, \"Whoa!!\"\nMerrick said as his eyes went wide, \"That is one, FAT Holsien!\"  \"Pfff, hahaha!\" Adam crackled at Merrick's observations. \"Seriously, LOOK. AT. HER! What kind of mermaid gets THAT\nround?!\" Merrick said, laughing as he held out his hands at the TV. It came to the part where Ariel is beginning to sing,\n\"Oooooh! She's got a cool Sea Spot! Look at all that stuff!\" Merrick said. He\npaused as Sebastian stumbled upon them, and talked as if King Triton would get\nmad at her, \"Huh? Wait, her father would get angry at her for having all that\nhuman stuff?\" \"Yeah. Like you said, contact with the human world is\nstrictly forbidden. Why, aren't merpeople prohibited from looking for human\nitems?\" \"On the contrary,\" Merrick said, \"This mermaid's behavior\nisn't all that strange to merpeople... Maybe a little excessive, but it's\ncompletely natural for merfolk to find human items fascinating. If we can carry\nit, we're allowed to keep it,\" Merrick smiled as he looked up at Adam, \"You\nshould see us when we DO find a sunken human ship. We explore it to see what\nsort of things we can find~! My Mother once found a beautiful... I think it's\ncalled a mirror, but smaller.\"  The movie played on, it played onto the part where Ariel\nsaves Eric from drowning, and started singing to him on the shore. Merrick\nsmiled and nuzzled Adam's cheek, \"This reminds me of when we first met...\"\nMerrick said. Adam smiled as he held Merrick close, and kissed his lips. \"As I recall, some Siren got me to sleepwalk over a cliff.\nNext thing I knew, I wake up in a hot spring cave with a cute naked blonde\nguy.\" Merrick giggled as Adam nuzzled him again. As the movie played out, Merrick watched, and realized that\nAriel seemed to be infatuated with Eric. \"Wait, is she... In love with that\nhuman?\" \"Yeah, she is. Like love at first sight.\" \"But wait, that's morning, the sun is out, she wasn't...\" Adam\nblinked and looked at Merrick. \"Hm? What's that got to do with it?\" \"... Never mind.\" Merrick said, before he watched on. The\nmovie eventually came to the part where King Triton came into Ariel's grotto.\nHe gasped as he started destroying the human objects, quivering at the\nlightening and force - He assumed King Triton's trident was enchanted by his\nNoita to summon lightning. They CAN do that, but not often.  Merrick snickered as Ursula came into the scene in her lair,\nlooking so fat and humorous. He blinked, and scoffed when she said she could\nturn Ariel into a human, \"Wait, hold on, no she can't.\" \"Huh? What do you mean, babe? You turn human all the time.\" \"That's one thing. That's only temporary for as long as he\nstay out of the water. But this Holsien Noita is saying she can make it\npermanent.\" \"Aaaannd... That can't EVER happen?\" \"No, not at all. A merperson CAN'T turn human. And vice\nversa, a human cannot turn into a merperson. It's physically, magically, and\ntechnically impossible. Otherwise, our relationship wouldn't be so...\" He sighed,\n\"Never mind...\" \"Hm...\" \"... Oh, come on! REALLY?!\" Merrick said as Ariel started to\nstand on her legs, \"Now all of a sudden she knows how to USE those legs??\" Adam\nlaughed at that. \"C'mon, babe, be fair. You just learned how to walk a couple\nof weeks ago, just out of nowhere.\" \"True... But... I guess I kinda... Figured it out after watching\nyou do so many times.\" He said with a shrug. The movie went on. Merrick smiled as Ariel met Eric, and\ntoured with him around the kingdom, and groaned in aggravation when they were\nunder the willow tree, about to kiss each other when the boat toppled over. He found it strange how Ursula needed to use her magic to\nturn human shape, when she could probably just as easily wait to dry off. He became invested in the story as Ursula disguised as\nVanessa, his attention wrapped around the following events, and eventual\nreverted back to her original form on the human boat.Merrick became steadily more nervous as the conflict\nhappened after King Triton was turned into a polyp. He held tightly onto Adam\nas Ursula turned into a giant. Adam could actually feel his merman shake as the\nsea witch tower out of the ocean, and used the trident's power to control the\nsea. Adam held him close as Merrick quivered as the scene took place. Even as\nEric pierced into Ursula and destroyed her, Merrick shook with the dark\nimagery.He smiled as Ariel shimmered from King Triton's power,\nturning into a human, and then seeing the wedding on the ship. He smiled and\nchuckled as the merpeople waved to the humans. He even felt a tinge of jealousy\nas King Triton hugged Ariel before casting the rainbow. \"... I wish it were that easy...\" Merrick said sadly, \"But it's\nnot possible for a Triton to be glad that his own Adra would chose to live with\nhumans...\" He said. Adam looked at him, and cuddled him close. \"So, what'd you think?\" He asked. \"It's a good story, Adam. I can definitely see the Razirah\ntelling this as a romantic story before rest. But on the majority, it just\nseems... Silly. Do humans REALLY think of merpeople like that? They didn't even LOOK\nlike real merfolk. They looked too HUMAN, even if they had tails of fish.\" \"More or less, yeah. Then again, humans have wild\nimaginations,\" He then smiled, \"As a matter of fact, we humans may be on the\nbrink of discovering merpeople.\" Merrick scoffed at him. \"Nuh-Uh! Us merfolk take special care to AVOID human\ndetection.\" \"Oh yeah, smart guy? Well it just so happens that we\ndiscovered evidence of merpeople just this year. So far, it's stirred up a lot\nof controversy.\" \"Hehehe, I doubt that,\" Merrick said with a smirk. \"Here, I'll prove it.\" Adam said as he got up, and turned\noff the PS3, and switched over to the VCR. He picked up a recorded videotape\nlabeled, 'MERMAIDS: The Body Found'. He put it into the VCR, and started it up. \"Is that another movie-story?\" Merrick asked curiously. \"Nope,\" Adam replied, \"This is called a documentary. It's a\nmovie that is supposedly based on scientific fact. I'll let YOU be the judge~\"\nHe said as he then walked back to the couch, and hopped on beside Merrick. The tape started with the scientist showing a portion of the\nBloop. Merrick gasped as he heard that sound, however, it was short, and cut to\nthe part to the mass whale beaching. He covered his mouth as he saw the\nhelpless whales washed up on the shores. He whimpered as the camera showed the\nbleeding whales on the beach as the NOAA team went to investigate the scene.\nThe very image made Merrick sick to his stomach. \"Navy? ... Sonar weapon testing? What are they talking about?\"\nMerrick asked, bewildered.  \"The Navy is another branch of the American Government. I\ntold you about the government, right? People who really run our country,\ncorrupt and do whatever they want. And the Sonar testing is... Well, humans are\nalways at war with each other, and they're testing a weapon that uses sound to\nblast away their enemies.\" \"But... Why?? Don't they see they're harming the ocean?!\"\nMerrick said, offended, \"Look at all those whales! How can those humans just\ncondone this?!\" \"Because they don't care. The government just does whatever\nthe fuck it wants to, and we can't do a thing about it.\" Adam said bitterly.\nMerrick looked put-down as he watched on.  It got to the part where they sounded the whale calls.\nMerrick whimpered as he shifted in his seat, hearing the fear from the whales.\nThen, the sonar weapon sounded, and Merrick flinched, \"That noise...\"  \"You... You recognized it,\" Adam asked. \"Yes...\" He panted and dug his face into Adam's chest as the\nblast and the whales and dolphins cried out in it.  \"M-Merrick? Merrick, are you alright??\" \"That noise!!\" He said, terrified, \"It sent chaos and death\nto us merfolk!\" Merrick said aloud as he cringed \"So many of us died from that\nsound!\" He then looked up, his eyes looking tearful, \"And... You're saying this\nhuman... Government, this Navy was responsible for it?!\" Adam sighed and nodded. \"Yeah...\" He stroked Merrick's soft blonde hair as he shook,\n\"Look, if you wanna stop watching, I'll turn it off.\" \"No...\" Merrick sniffled and turned back around, \"No... I need...\nI need to know the truth. I need to know what else you humans have been doing...\"\nHe said. Adam sighed, and let it continue. Merrick gasped as he heard the Bloop signature. He covered\nhis mouth and shook to his core. He felt a cold chill purge inside of him as he\nheard the calls and the sounds of agony. \"Do you... Do you know what they're saying, Merrick?\" Adam\nasked, a little frightened to talk to his merman now. \"It's a mixture or terror and pain. They're trying to call\nout for one another, they're... They keep trying to stick together, but it looks\nlike they can't keep track with anything. They're screaming for their lives,\nthey're so afraid...\" Merrick watched, feeling disgusted and upset from more\nfootage of the mass whale beaching. It terrified him to see and know that\nwhales were on the beach, dead or dying. Merrick's eyes widened as he saw the pictures of spears. He\nhas seen many spears, in and out of his pod. He watched intently as footage of\nhumans and sea mammals rolled on, explaining the principles of evolution with\nhumans' adaptability to the water. \"Ah!\" Merrick jumbled as it shown the primate creatures of\nprehistoric times, \"What are THOSE??\" \"Those are the humans' primal ancestors; that's where humans\noriginated millions of years ago. That's where we evolved from.\" Merrick tilted\nhis head, blinking strangely at the monkey-like humans. He moaned as the movie\ngot back to the beached whales, and the NOAA team had moved their research to\nthe African Coast. He held tight onto Merrick as more of the Bloop noise played\nout. Adam rubbed his back softly. And then the remains from the Great White Shark came into\nview. Merrick covered his mouth as he gagged a little, seeing the blood and\nremains from the stomach of the shark. He jerked his head away as Paul Roberts\nyanked the stingray barb out of the underbelly of the blood-soaked shark.  He cringed as the remains from the shark's stomach was on a\nmetal table, about to be thoroughly examined. He shuddered and groaned as he\nsaw the bones, bloody cartilage, with the scientists carefully handling the\nflesh.  Merrick gasped at the part of the computer rendering of the\npartially evolved merfolk, swimming with the dolphins. His eyes went wide as\nthe next sequence was of a merman with a spear, diving into the abyss to hunt\nfor squid. \"Th-Those are...\" He yelped as the merman stabbed into the\nyellow squid in the blackness, \"Those are Primates!\" \"Primates?\" Adam asked, \"You know what they are?\" \"Yes, we call them Primates,\" Merrick said, \"Because in\ncomparison, they are, in a word, primitive and reclusive. They are a species of\nAmnien merfolk that have been in the ocean for eons longer than any other\nmerfolk. They're very mysterious, and they don't trade or communicate with\nother merpeople, or follow the laws established by the days of old,\" He\nexplained, \"As far as we can tell, they don't have Tritons or Noitas.\" \"Wow...\" He said. \"You can tell because they're not wearing kelp or shells.\nThey carry only the necessity.\" He said before watching more of the movie, \"But\nthey DO make those kinds of tools,\" Merrick said as they examined the\nbone-handle with the stingray barb, \"We make those kinds of things all the\ntime...\" Merrick watched more, and gasped at the part where the\nMegalodon attacked the large Humpback Whale before the merman scout. He huddled\nclose to Adam as the pod looked fearfully at the scout as he cut its own chest\nto lure the Megalodon, before it was eaten. That image recanted his dark\nexperience with the Phantasma. He tilted his head and covered his mouth as he saw the\nsupposed skull of the mermaid. It disturbs him to think and know that's what's\nmore or less inside his own head. He has almost never seen anything so morbid\nin his life. This whole video makes him sick. \"What about THIS, Merrick?\" \"H-Huh?\" The movie is showing the pod of merfolk and\ndolphins spiraling around a school of fish, catching them with rocks tied to\nnets, \"Do you merpeople hunt like that?\" \"Y-Yeah, actually... We do, when we see a pod of fish like\nthat...\" He is a little reluctant to talk. His insides are churning with fear and\nuncertainty at this documentary. As the movie rolled on to the various arts and\nceramics depicting merpeople, he began to feel a growing terror at the\nsuspicion that the humans know more about merpeople than they're supposed to.\nAvoiding humans at all is tricky enough, but this looks as though humans\npractically know everything about them already!He gasped as he saw the hasty footage of a mermaid caught in\na fishnet, before it dropped. Merrick felt a chill in his soul as he saw the\ncave paintings of humans and merpeople and whales. Adam could feel his merman\nshiver from watching this.The Adra felt a little reassured at the part where the\ngovernment officials confiscated the body remains, but at the same time,\nknowing how much control those types of humans have also scared him deeply. For\na brief moment, he cringed as he imagined himself butchered and examined in\nthose containers. And then, the moment of truth, as it was. The video showed\nthe part of the two boys on the beach, where the whales were stranded on the\nbeach. One of the boys had picked up a stick, and poked at a pile of kelp and\nsand. Seconds later, Merrick jumped as the mermaid screamed out, and grabbed at\none of the boys. \"NO!\" Merrick shouted, \"Go back! Go back and help her!\" He\nshouted. Adam scrambled as Merrick stood up and approached the TV. \"Merrick, stop-\" \"GO BACK, humans!\" He shouted as Adam pulled him back,\n\"Adam, they're just leaving her behind! She needs their help!\"\n\"Merrick, stop it! Calm down!\" Adam said as Merrick struggled against him,\n\"Merrick, listen to me!\" Merrick grunted and looked into his eyes, \"This\nhappened almost a year ago. They can't hear you.\" Merrick looked in horror at\nAdam, and then at the TV, \"The government got to that mermaid a long time ago.\"\nMerrick slowly shook his head, breathless at the documentary.   ---  Throughout the day, Merrick was quite bewildered. He didn't\ntalk much, he even avoided Yuri and Jamal when they came home. All through the\nday, up to where he climbed into bed with Adam.  The human kissed Merrick goodnight, and cuddled up to him in\nbed. Merrick felt a mixture affection and intimidation from his human. He can\nfeel Adam slowly fall asleep, with his warm arm around him. He knows he's not\ngoing to be able to sleep, not with all these disturbing thoughts and ideas\nfloating about in his mind.  ---  \"Mmmm...\" Adam snuggled in his sleep, and rolled over. He\nblinked awake, and sat upright. Merrick is gone. \"Merrick?\" He got up and\nlooked around. He passed Jamal's room, where he was snoring, and spooning\nbuck-naked with a woman with blue and purple streaks in her hair. He rolled his\neyes as he closed his door, and looked around the house. Yuri was gone, off to\nclass, but Merrick was nowhere to be seen. He went back into his room, and also noticed Merrick's\ntrident is missing. He knelt down, and pulled the box under it, discovering\nMerrick's sea gear was gone too. \"Where...\" He muttered, \"Where did he go...?\"  ~~~  Adam searched the beach before going into the forest. His\nnext place to check is Aquata Cove. He stepped onto and around the twigs and\nleaves, and finally heard the waterfall. He emerged from the woods, and smiled\nas he saw Merrick, standing there, facing the water, wearing this tooth\ncrossbelts, his scallop shell shoulder pads, the kelp-band around his head, and\nholding his trident. \"Merrick! There you are! I wondered where you ran off to,\"\nHe said. Merrick didn't respond. \"Merrick?\" Adam came up to the naked merman,\n\"What's the matter, babe?\" \"... Adam...\" He finally said, \"This is goodbye.\" Adam's smile\nfaded. \"W-Wha? Wait, Merrick, it's only been three and a half\nweeks! You can't be leaving already-\" \"No, Adam,\" Merrick said, \"I mean, this is goodbye, for you\nand me.\"  Adam felt his stomach sink as he heard these words, \"No... No,\nno no, TELL me you're joking! Please, please tell me you're kidding, Merrick!\nYo-You-You don't mean you're breaking up with me!\" \"If that's what you humans call it,\" Merrick said, his voice\nhollow and strained, \"Yes. We have to stop this... You and I cannot be together\nanymore...\" \"Wha-Why, why, why not, Merrick??\" Adam said as he stepped\nup to behind the blonde, \"Merrick, please don't do this... Please, don't...\" \"You are a human. I am a merman. We belong in two different\nworlds. How can we hope to stay together like this? I am always in the sea, and\nyou are always here. It's not fair for either of us to force you to wait on my\narrival.\" \"I-I told you, Merrick, I don't care how long I have to\nwait,\" Adam said, his eyes starting to water up, \"I love you, please don't do\nthis!\" \"Adam... I know I said I trusted you to protect me... But what\nyou showed me - that movie-thing with the Primate merpeople... Whatever this\ngovernment is - the power humans bow so easily to - I take it they can do\nwhatever they want... I can't allow them to capture me...\" \"Th-Then we'll just keep coming here then! We don't have to\ngo to my house, or the pier! Please, I just want to be with you, Merrick!\" Adam\npleaded. \"And then there's your JOB thing... Every day, you leave me\nbehind, and I just sit around, waiting on endless time for your return, bored\nand alone. You just go away and leave me to wonder when you'll ever come back,\nlike I am just a toy to you...\" \"Merrick, I TOLD you, I can't change that! I need to keep my\njob! You can't-\" \"That is not the main reason, however,\" Merrick continued,\nwithout even looking at Adam, \"You know full well I am the Adra Triton -\nsomeday soon, I will have to succeed my pod, in my Father's place. Even you\nmust have realized that by now. I cannot mate with a human and lead my pod at\nthe same time. I must find a mermaid to be my Noita. And you...\" Merrick paused\nfor a moment, \"And you must find another man to love...\" \"But... No, no no!\" Adam said as he walked up to him, \"I love\nYOU! I don't want anyone else! JUST you!\" He walked around to face him, but\nthose blue eyes kept staring down, towards the water, \"A-A-And Merrick, you're\ngay! You've always told me you're not interested in mermaids! How can you just\nlie and fake love a mermaid?!\" \"I have to try,\" Merrick said as he turned his head away\nfrom him, \"I don't have a choice.\" \"YES, you do!\" Adam said, \"You can live here, on the land!\nWith me! Please, can't you just leave your pod?? That's what Belinda did-\" \"Do NOT compare me to that Latolcus!\" Merrick spat out,\n\"This is not the same thing at all. Adam, I cannot abandon my pod,\" He said\nblankly, \"My pod is my life. I have to do this, as an Adra Triton...\" He closed\nhis eyes, \"Just know I will always cherish the memories we've had together... But\nwe can never be...\" \"You CAN'T be serious,\" Adam said, feeling a tear run from\nhis eye, \"Merrick, please, I love you, PLEASE don't do this to me...\" He turned\nthe merman's face to look at him, \"You mean more to me than anything in the\nwhole world, you ARE my life-\" \"Stop...\" \"MERRICK!\" Adam said, \"Look me in the eyes, and tell me you\nDON'T love me!\" \"Adam, stop this now...\" \"5 years, Merrick, for God's sake! FIVE YEARS we've been\ntogether! Doesn't that count for ANYTHING?!\" \"Stop it, Adam... This is the way it has to be...\" \"No it doesn't dammit!\" Adam said as Merrick pushed him\naside. \"Merrick, please don't break up with me!\" \"I HAVE to, Human...\" Merrick said as he stepped into the\nwater. \"Wh-WHAT?!\" Adam hastily stepped into the water, putting his\nhands onto Merrick's shoulder shells, \"What did you just call me?!\" He said,\nshocked as his heart sank horribly, \"Merrick...\" Adam huffed and sniffled,\n\"Merrick, no... Please no,\" He said as he began to weep. \"Merrick!\" Adam yelled, \"Please...\" His lower lip quivered as\nhe shook his head, \"Don't go... Don't leave me...\" \"Stand aside,\" Merrick said, and looked Adam directly in the\neyes, his own sapphires looking cold and unfeeling.  \"You're a mistake I never should have made.\"  The words cut into Adam like a knife, \"How... How can you say\nthat?!\" Adam exclaimed. \"Goodbye, Human...\" He said as he moved into the water, his\nbody transforming as he dove down, and rose up again, in his true form. \"This\nis the end between us. We are finished.\" \"Merrick, please, don-\" Before Adam could chase him, Merrick\nturned around, and sent a harsh splash-wave at Adam, hissing a loud, vicious\ngrowl at the human. Adam gasped loudly as he felt a jolt of cold force spark\ninside his body, forcing him to topple backward, and fall onto a rock. He\npanted as he looked at the Adra, his eyes glittering with a white fluid while\nglaring at him with an anger Adam has only seen once before. The merman then\ndove into the water, his shimmering blue tail riding along the surface, before\nhis white fin slapped the water. \"... Fine...\" Adam breathed deeply as tears filled his eyes, and\nhe got up, \"FINE! Go away! Just- Fuck you AND your pod!!\" He picked up a large\nrock, and threw it into the water, \"Swim FAR away from me as you can, you\nfucking overgrown tunafish!\" He hefted another rock, and sent it flying into\nthe grotto, \"Go on and fuck a mermaid! Have a hundred fucking Adras and forget\nALL about me!\" He kept flinging rocks into the pool until he started crying too\nmuch to throw anymore. \"But I will NEVER forget you!! YOU HEAR ME, MERRICK?! I will\nNEVER...\" Adam dropped his knees, and sobbed, \"Forget you...\" He curled up, and\ncried on the rock, cringing as he felt his heart fell into pieces inside of\nhim.  ~~~  Merrick curled up after he left the tunnel and sealed the\nentrance with the clamshell, weeping profusely as he clutched his arm, and then\npart of the reef, wanting nothing more than to die after what he just did. His\neyes are clouded around a shimmering mist of his own tears as he wept\nuncontrollably. \"What have I done... What have I done... I am so... I am so sorry...\nAdam... I am sorry... Please forgive me... I cannot forgive myself... Please never\nforget me... I can never...\" He muttered as he shuddered with emotion, feeling like\na horrible creature after destroying his and Adam's hearts. Those cruel,\nheartless words still echoed in his head, the look of utter devastation on\nAdam's face, haunting his mind, every time he closed his eyes. 'You're a mistake I never should have made...' Merrick cringed each time he heard his own voice say that\nhorrible statement. He can see his human's very heart shatter in his eyes. \"After... After all this time... I still... I still do not know...\"\nIt took every once of will power to pull himself out from the hidden spot of\nthe reef, but stopping at the brink of the edge, \"I still do not know what I\nshould do...\" \"... Shining Sea Mother... Please... Help me...\" He whimpered as he\ndug his face in his webbed hands, and cried into them.","previous":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/700354-aquata-cove-chapter-18.json","next":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/701814-aquata-cove-chapter-20.json"}